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Let brother help brother.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 362 D....)
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The African is my brother—but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
(Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), French missionary, theologian, musician. Quoted in Observer (London, October 23, 1955).)
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If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
(Epictetus (c. 50-120), Greek Stoic philosopher. Enchiridion, 43.)
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Just let him be minister if that's what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Poems (1849).)
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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Anna Howe, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 15, AMS Press (1990).)
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Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking,
(Frank Loesser (1910-1969), U.S. songwriter. "Standing on the Corner," The Most Happy Fella, Frank Music Corp. (1956).
Music composed by Frederick Loewe (1901-1988).)
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And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time
Wheeling and whispering come,
(James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919), British poet. Stillness (l. 8-9). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose
(John Fletcher (1579-1625), British dramatist. The Tragedy of Valentinian (V, ii). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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Brother, can you spare a dime?
(E.Y. Harburg (1898-1981), U.S. songwriter. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," Americana, Harms, Inc. (1932).
Music composed by Jay Gorney (1896-1990).)
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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Self-Reliance," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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